Researchers have previously snapped blurry photos of Borneo’s elusive “vampire squirrel,” but video footage published earlier this month gives the world its first clear glimpse at this unusual creature. [...]
Locals have reported finding deer and chickens ripped open, sometimes with none of the flesh eaten and sometimes with only the heart and liver missing.
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Little is known about the squirrel, so it’s possible it drinks deer blood as locals say. But Andrew Marshall, a conservation biologist at the University of Michigan who is studying the squirrel, told Science Magazine, “I would be very surprised if it were true.”
It seems instead to prefer the nuts of the canarium tree. These nuts are so hard, researchers don’t know how the squirrel manages to chew them.
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That they could kill a deer is surprising. That they WOULD kill a deer and eat bits of it is not. Squirrels are omnivores. Obviously any squirrel with mohawks on their ears and their rear end jacked up like a muscle car is capable of almost anything.

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